The Steam Pig
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: DJ - worn with some moisture damage.
A landmark work of crime fiction, The Steam Pig introduces readers to one of literature's most compelling detective duos: Lieutenant Tromp Kramer, a white Afrikaner, and his Zulu sergeant, Mickey Zondi, as they investigate the brutal murder of a young woman in apartheid-era South Africa. James McClure's debut novel uses the procedural framework of a police thriller to expose the deep moral contradictions and human costs of a society built on racial segregation, delivering social commentary with the precision of a scalpel. The tone is taut and unsentimental, balancing sharp wit with genuine menace as Kramer and Zondi navigate a system that criminalizes their own partnership. McClure illustrates how the machinery of apartheid distorts justice at every turn, making the pursuit of a killer inseparable from a reckoning with the state itself. Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award, The Steam Pig stands as a masterwork of the genre — a novel that is as politically incisive as it is grippingly plotted.
Author: James Mcclure
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, Harper & Row, Publishers
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: DJ - worn with some moisture damage.
A landmark work of crime fiction, The Steam Pig introduces readers to one of literature's most compelling detective duos: Lieutenant Tromp Kramer, a white Afrikaner, and his Zulu sergeant, Mickey Zondi, as they investigate the brutal murder of a young woman in apartheid-era South Africa. James McClure's debut novel uses the procedural framework of a police thriller to expose the deep moral contradictions and human costs of a society built on racial segregation, delivering social commentary with the precision of a scalpel. The tone is taut and unsentimental, balancing sharp wit with genuine menace as Kramer and Zondi navigate a system that criminalizes their own partnership. McClure illustrates how the machinery of apartheid distorts justice at every turn, making the pursuit of a killer inseparable from a reckoning with the state itself. Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award, The Steam Pig stands as a masterwork of the genre — a novel that is as politically incisive as it is grippingly plotted.